This  week, your celebratory but pensive team take a peek at New Years' songs  and wonder about when the world will have a new year. Lachlan tries to  carry the feeling of the season, which he does valiantly despite  generalised resistance, though he is briefly confused about why Jesus is  famous. Along the way, we talk about tricky animals, New Years  Accelerationists, the Christmas legacy of Phil Spector, and the  complicated atlas of viscous foods in the US. We also, completely  organically, Address The Ham again. In this episode, recorded in and on  our end-of-year limbo, we cover "In the New Year", by the Walkmen,  "Happy New Year", by ABBA (which compels Lachlan to repeatedly bare his  feelings about ABBA), and "Auld Lang Syne", by the Irish Rovers. It's  maybe our worst recording ever, owing to Lachlan having a reaction to  his house's heating and Jess being lost by sexist microphones.

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